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Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…
Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...
London: printed for Simon Miller, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sound assurance of the love of God, produces care and industry, in the work and ways of God, as is evident by the language of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.1, 8. We know, we are confident, saith he of himself, and other Believers; and what follows? Therefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him, ver. 9. These mens assurance produced not carelessness and sloth, but care and industry, and it is the property of good assurance so to do.
Sound assurance of the love of God, produces care and industry, in the work and wayes of God, as is evident by the language of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.1, 8. We know, we are confident, saith he of himself, and other Believers; and what follows? Therefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him, ver. 9. These mens assurance produced not carelesness and sloth, but care and industry, and it is the property of good assurance so to do.
This condemns that Popish Tenet, That assurance of salvation is the destroyer of all piety and charity.1 And it condemns that assurance that is fruitless or careless.
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In the sixth place, Sound assurance produces joy, 1 Pet. 1.8. Faith of evidence and joy, are inseparably united, they are Twins born at once, and if assurance die, joy dies with it; In whomsoever the Spirit of God is a Spirit of Confirmation, he is a Spirit of Consolation; the soul that is assured of the love of God towards it, cannot but rejoice in it; spiritual Consolation doth not spring so naturally from any thing, as it doth out of the witness of the